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title: "Xpediter Mainframe Debugger Tutorial (Part 2)"
description: "Xpediter tutorial explained useful commands"
url: https://srinimf.com/2012/03/26/xpediter-commands-part-2/
date: 2012-03-26
modified: 2026-10-05
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# Xpediter Mainframe Debugger Tutorial (Part 2)

Refer “[part1](http://srinimf.com/2012/01/05/xpediter-commands/)“,  if you miss it. We are “[Born to win](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1455120367/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=mainframesrin-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1455120367)“. Working with Xpediter/CICS is a nice challenging job. You agree, CICS is a popular Online Transaction Processing. Learning few Xpediter commands enough you debug [CICS program](https://srinimf.com/2014/08/03/3-cobol-features-not-allowed-in-cics/).

In an online  environment, either production/test environment, debugging is a little hard. With Xpediter you will overcome it. Just make sure your installation has Xpediter setup.

**Follow the steps:**

- XPED    xxxxxxx (program name)
- Press F3, Select option 6, DSECT (Give your program name, Logical terminal, Transaction name)
- F3, F3, You will see “session control”
- Fill the options 4 and option 6 (Give user id, program name, Terminal id, Transaction id etc)
- F3, it will take you to “End session screen”
- Give “End session : No” and “Dump option: No”
- Press enter
- XPED xxxxx(pgm name)
- You will see now your program, set [Break point](https://srinimf.com/2020/08/02/how-to-debug-py-module-using-pdb/) where you need.
- Now give input in the screen, see line by line execution.
- If you want to exit from Xpediter, just use Pause-break & “XPND” to terminate a session

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